Board & Business Meeting Minutes Posted

Minutes have been posted for:

• DCHE Board Meeting
  
• DCHE Business Meeting
• MRM Section Board/Business Meeting
  

Information Competencies for Chemistry Undergraduates

The final version of Information Competencies for Chemistry Undergraduates: the elements of information literacy is now available. A big thanks to the DCHE Ad Hoc Committee on Information Literacy for all their work in putting this together.

If you have questions or comments about this document, please contact Cory Craig (cjcraig@ucdavis.edu) and Linda Maddux (lbm@reed.edu).

Vendor Report: Bio-Rad

The Bio-Rad presentation from the Chemistry Vendor Roundtable has been posted (warning: large file).

How to Find Spectroscopy/Crystallography

Dana Roth's presentation (+ links) on locating crystallography information is now online. Elizabeth Brown's spectroscopy presentation is available on SlideShare. These were great presentations: informative, interesting, and chock full of good resources.

Vendor Reports: Thomson & CAS

The Thomson & CAS presentations from the Chemistry Vendor Roundtable have been posted.

Collection Development in the Electronic Age (Presentations)

Three presentations from the Collection Development in the Electronic Age have been posted:

• Life Cycle of Digital Reference Resources: Asking the Right Questions - Dr. Lesley Farmer (Cal State Long Beach)


• Science Electronic Resources at The University of Auckland Library: The impact on collection management and service delivery - Sonya L. Donoghue (Univ Auckland)


• Journey into the Digital Age: Strategies for Developing and Managing Collections in a Federal Research Library - Susan Makar (NIST)
  

2008 Chair-Elect and Other Executive Board News

At the Chemistry Division Business Meeting on June 5, Luray Minkiewicz (DuPont Experimental Station) was elected Chair-Elect 2008 and Division Chair for 2009. She is currently the division's archivist.

Remember, SLA has moved to calendar years so there was no changeover of the Executive Board during the conference. In January, Chair-Elect Sue Cardinal (Univ Rochester) will become DCHE Chair, and current Chair Ben Wagner (Univ Buffalo) will become Past-Chair/Nominating Committee Chair.

Margarete Bower (Univ Pittsburgh), who was appointed secretary earlier this year, was elected to remain as such for 2008-2009. Secretaries and treasurers are elected in alternate years, so Bob Buchanan (Auburn) will continue as treasurer through 2008.

Spectroscopy for the Unpolarized

Elizabeth Brown's (Binghampton) excellent presentation on finding spectra and spectroscopic information is now online at SlideShare. Or you can check it out here:

Collection Development in the Electronic Age (Posted)

The handout for the Collection Development in the Electronic Age program has been posted. We hope to get copies of the presentations and post those as well.

Conference Reports, Presentations, Handouts...

Did you write a report on one of the sessions? Give a presentation? Participate in the poster session? Then send your stuff!!

Please send in your reports, presentation slides, poster files, and handouts to tmvogel@ucsd.edu, and they'll get posted on the DCHE website.

Word and Powerpoint files are preferred. Any changes I make (including conversion to PDF) are only to reduce file size.